Lightweight Thread Pool Libraries in .NET

Question

I'm looking for a thread pool library in .NET

• I should able to push about 100.000 tasks, therefore should provide support for "blocking" . (obviously I can't push so many tasks at once, so should support some blocking while adding new tasks, and should block the thread until a new slot is available)
• Not overly complicated
• Not so expensive (memory - CPU wise)
• Free / Open Source (Commercial Friendly License)

I've already got my own solution which supports all of these, but I'm not quite sure if it's the best implementation or not. So I want to look into other libraries.

This will be mainly used for HTTP Requests, so less CPU more response wait. That means 100 concurrent thread is acceptable.

Answer 1

The best i've seen recently is Jeffery Richter's PowerThreading library. You might also want to check out this Channel 9 video

The nice thing about the PowerThreading library is that it makes efficient use of the the ThreadPool by allowing a single thread to be shared across many requests.

Answer 2

Why not just use the .NET ThreadPool?